Chapter 760: Shelling

The Chu State successfully adapted the first Chu State Water Pirates. In order to win over the water pirates, without affecting the cooperation between the two parties, and at the same time eliminating the other side's vigilance, the Chu State Water Army adopted an independent designation for the adaptation. In this way, both parties have achieved their goals. The power of Chu's navy has grown to a certain extent. This will provide a powerful help for the future containment of Qin's surface naval forces.

Just when the power of the water surface in the south was quietly changing. The situation in the north is getting bad again.

"Two and a half miles ahead of the target, the grenade is ready and released." A Qi State artillery commander shouted. The Qin system and the Qi system are two different length units, and the Qi system is relatively small. It is equivalent to the Liangli of Qin State. However, when Yan State Artillery was teaching Qi State Artillery, the Qin State’s system was adopted, but the people of Qi State seemed very stubborn. They even demanded that they be converted into Qi State’s own unit of length and then studied. In this way, the artillery of Qi people calculated according to their own ruler.

"Kang Dang." The shell was stuffed into the barrel. The artillery shells are installed.

"Let it go." The artillery commander yelled loudly and gave an order.

"Ignite." The artillery lighter ignited quickly. Qi’s artillery used captured Yan’s artillery, and Yan’s artillery came from Qin’s artillery. Before exporting, Qin’s artillery had undergone some modifications, that is, the original detonator was ignited, that is, the compression-pull type. A detonator was installed behind the barrel, and then a spring mechanism was used to pull it and the gravity device to hit it hard. When the detonator is struck, the detonator produces a spark to ignite the internal propellant. This is the ignition method used by all bronze artillery before Qin. However, due to Qin’s internal technology restrictions on exports and the money used by Yan people, Yan people can’t afford that part of the money, and the cost of using detonators to launch is very expensive. The price of a detonator is equivalent to the price of five bullets, which is too expensive for them. Therefore, Yan Guoren did not purchase. Of course, the people of Qin were not willing to trade at a loss, so they refitted all these artillery. It became a traditional ignition type and sold it to the people of Yan.

After the Yan people experienced a huge failure, these artillery pieces were in the hands of the Qi people. The people of Qi people do not know that there is such a way of ignition, so they still use the traditional way of ignition.

The people of Qin said that this traditional method of ignition has drawbacks, but he can't say anything about it. It seems that it is slower in time and there is not much difference in the specifics. However, the people of Qi don't feel that it is harmless when they use it by themselves. Instead, I prefer to use this artillery.

However, the Qin Army looked down on this type of artillery with a backward firing method. They thought that this type of artillery was heavy and had a terribly slow firing speed. What's bad is that this type of artillery is the most dangerous in the fast firing mode, especially artillery. If you don't pay attention to it, it may cause the risk of bombing. When using this artillery before, the life of Qin's artillery could not be guaranteed. Later, after the use of fixed metal barrels followed by artillery, this situation was greatly improved.

"Boom. Boom. Boom." The Qi army assembled all the artillery they could collect. There are only twenty-six artillery pieces in total. But these artillery are enough to deal with Qin's airport with only more than 300 people.

"Howl." A roar of shells came.

"Boom." A huge explosion sounded. The shells accurately landed on the Qin army's position. The shell did not hit any targets at first. But it shocked the soldiers of the Qin Army.

"Artillery attack. Artillery attack." The Qin Army soldier exclaimed nervously.

"Swish. Swish." Cannonballs roared continuously.

"Boom. Boom." The artillery shells continued to explode on the Qin army's position.

"Bah, bah." The mud blasted up by the shells entered the mouth of a second lieutenant of the Qin Army.

"Damn Qi, where did the artillery come from?" the ensign yelled in dissatisfaction.

"Swish. Swish." Qi people's artillery fired continuously, trying to suppress Qin's machine gun by relying on this uninterrupted artillery.

"Let me see." After the captain who attacked the Qi army heard the sound of the guns, he hurried to the outpost observation post for observation. Through a hidden observation port. The captain saw his target in the telescope.

In the camera, gunpowder smoke from a Qi State artillery covered the artillery position of the Qi army, and the captain could only see part of the artillery firing through the blow of the wind.

This old-fashioned bronze artillery still uses black powder. If you use Qin's granular gunpowder, Qin has a deep research on granular gunpowder. Qin has added some animal and plant glues to the gunpowder to make the gunpowder particles larger, so that the gunpowder’s launch reaction speed is very large. Speed ​​up, the power is much greater than the power after using water to dry, the most important thing is that the storage time is relatively long. The difference is that the gunpowder used by the people of Qi is imported from Chu and exported from Qin, which has been greatly reduced. The power of these gunpowder was originally less than the industrial gunpowder produced by Qin. Not only that, these gunpowder uses powdered gunpowder, not granular gunpowder.

However, the artillery of the State of Yan pointed out the necessity of using this kind of gunpowder, because only the use of granular gunpowder, matched with the cone-shaped shells, and the rifling in the barrel can the shells have a greater range. In this way, Qi Guo learned about granular gunpowder in disguise, but the problem was that after they knew it, they couldn't make granular gunpowder at all. But they can get some natural granular gunpowder. These granular gunpowder comes from damp gunpowder. The south of Chu State is humid. Gunpowder is easily damp during storage and transportation. When these damp gunpowder is transported to Qi, the people of Qi need to dry it naturally. This process happened to be the initial stage of Qin's production of granular gunpowder. Therefore, Qi artillery is more willing to use this damp gunpowder. Because they can accidentally get some granular gunpowder, the use of these gunpowder can greatly increase the range of the projectile. Granular gunpowder is no less than strong explosive.

But Qi people still can't get fine granular gunpowder. Because they haven't got enough understanding about this problem, and at the same time, they still lack one thing, this is the process of graphite lighting, this process is crucial to maintaining the power of granular gunpowder. But the people of Qi have not yet realized the role of graphite. The people of Qin have begun to use graphite on a large scale, in various industries and daily life. The most commonly seen is that the battery in the flashlight used by Qin Guo is a carbon rod made of graphite.

"Hmph." The captain looked at the artillery position where the Qi people fired artillery shells and smiled disdainfully.

"Can this old artillery fire accurately?" the captain asked to himself.

"Huh." A cannonball flew over and interrupted a banner set up by the Qin Army. The flag fell on the ground. In fact, this artillery can still fire hardcover within a range of two miles. Especially Qin State once exported a practical artillery made of steel. The accuracy of this type of artillery is no less than that of the shells that use metal. Because that kind of steel artillery is the originator of the later use of artillery. The Qin people just exported this kind of artillery,

Because, the people of Qin people think that this grandpa-level artillery is no longer useful. In particular, the Qin Army once equipped a large number of such artillery. But soon new artillery was built. In terms of range, rate of fire, and ease of use, it far surpasses that of steel artillery. Therefore, Qin quickly eliminated this kind of steel artillery and sold it to the people of Yan.

"Damn it. How can the Qi people's artillery be accurate." The captain scolded angrily at this time.

He had no idea that Qin's domestic arms dealers, especially the army, were still involved. A large number of such artillery are stacked in their warehouse. To keep these iron guys from rusting. Also in order to be able to install new artillery early. Therefore, the military resold the artillery to the people of Yan, and then the people of Yan gave them to the people of Qi. In this way, the artillery produced by Qin people can finally be used on their own people.

"We don't know, but depending on the model, it seems to be an artillery produced by ourselves." A firearms sergeant observed through a telescope and said.

"That's right. The **** Yan people gave artillery to these **** Qi people." The captain cursed loudly.

But the people of Qin should feel fortunate. Because the people of Yan people don’t buy many of these artillery, because the price is too expensive. So the artillery flowed into the houses of the nobles, or the Chu army in the south. Only a small part of them entered the Yan army. Qi Jun only got a small amount of such artillery. What Qi Jun got was still a lot of bronze artillery. The accuracy of these bronze artillery guns was more accurate at a distance of 500 steps, but after passing a critical point, the artillery shells began to become inaccurate, coupled with the maintenance of the artillery and the repeated use of the rifling. The life span of these artillery has been reduced a lot. Because the artillery of Yan State rarely took the initiative to maintain their artillery, and because of the battlefield, their artillery used a lot of time. This invisibly gave the Qin people another advantage. The lifespan of these artillery was greatly discounted due to the relationship with the Yan people.

"The artillery looks very old, but the current situation is that we still exist within the effective range of these artillery, especially these artillery can hit four miles. When shooting at a fifteen degree angle. Our machine gun is here. There is no way to effectively touch the enemy in terms of distance. We are in a very passive situation. We can only be passively beaten. But we have nothing to do with this." A Qin officer was replying to a telegram from the Qin State Xianyang Staff Headquarters. The author wrote in this way.

The addition of artillery made the staff of the Qin State Staff feel the seriousness of the matter.